A FPGA-PC Based Acoustic Emission System with Logarithmic Preamplifier for Fracture Monitoring

Autor: Gabriel Cséfalvay, Petr Sedlak, Marek Vondra
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Key Engineering Materials. :541-544
ISSN: 1662-9795
Popis: Acoustic emission (AE) is one of the most used nondestructive technique since it offers a great potential due to its ability of quantitative evaluation such as source location and source characterization. A common set of recorded acoustic emission signals has an extraordinarily wide dynamic range. Thus, the input gain of the A/D converter plays a key role due in information loss considering limitation of high signal amplitudes and domination of quantization noise at low levels. The usage of a logarithmic preamplifier extends the dynamic range of conventional A/D converters, thus increases the accuracy and signal-to-noise ratio of weak acoustic emission signals.
Databáze: OpenAIRE